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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics CHART: Level of school reserves carried forward (£ thousand)
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2009-10(r) The data item has been revised.71,861
2010-1173,907
2011-1267,269
2012-1369,244
2013-1459,650
2014-1563,588
2015-1664,150
2016-1746,007
2017-1850,394
2018-19(r) The data item has been revised.46,421
2019-20(r) The data item has been revised.31,739
2020-21180,586
2021-22301,436
2022-23208,249
2023-24114,523

Metadata

General description

Under section 52 of the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998, Local Authorities are required to provide an outturn statement at the end of each financial year. The purpose of the statement is to provide information on the local authorities actual education spending.

The data contained in this report is derived from part 1 of the Section 52 Education Outturn Statements completed by local authorities.

The data shown in the reports are purely delegated or devolved expenditure by schools for the financial year and does not include any money held centrally by the local authority and spent on behalf of schools.

The data also shows the levels of reserves that individual schools carry forward from one year to another.

Nursery schools only became part of delegated outturn expenditure from 2006/07 onwards so are not shown as part of this data for earlier years.

Data collection and calculation

The information presented here is collected via annual returns from Welsh Local Authorities.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown for each financial year from 1999-00 onwards.

Title

Delegated schools outturn expenditure

Last update

October 2024 October 2024

Next update

October 2025

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Section 52 outturn (S52O) data collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.finance@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Local authorities

Languages covered

English only

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Keywords

Local Government Finance, delegated school outturn reserves

Statistical quality

See weblinks

Weblinks

The associated statistical releases can be found via the links at the following webpage:
https://gov.wales/statistics-and-research?lang=en
A statistical quality report relating to all Local Government Finance statistical releases can be found at the following webpage:
https://gov.wales/local-government-finance-statistics-quality-report